Sunset

Details

GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894)
Sunset
signed and dated 'G. Inness 1891' (lower right)
oil on canvas
45 ¼ x 35 in. (114.9 x 88.9 cm.)
Painted in 1891.

Provenance

Potter Palmer, Chicago, Illinois.
Estate of the above.
Howard Young Galleries, New York, by 1922.
Arthur J. Secor, Toledo, Ohio, 1925.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1933.

Literature

"Potter Palmer Art at Young Galleries," American Art News, vol. XXI, no. 1, October 14, 1922, p. 1.
"An Inness Landscape Greatly Admired by Elliott Daingerfield," Art News, vol. XXIII, no. 16, January 24, 1925, p. 1, illustrated.
L. Ireland, The Works of George Inness, Austin, Texas, 1965, p. 354, no. 1385, illustrated.
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 65, 150, pl. 67, illustrated.
M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, pp. 333-34, no. 1026, illustrated.

Exhibited

Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.
New York, Howard Young Galleries, Paintings from the Estate of the Late Potter Palmer of Chicago, 1922, n.p., no. 8, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

According to Michael Quick: "While organized in terms of the orange and green opposition that Inness had used for his sunset paintings since the 1880s, this landscape also employs a very thick atmosphere to create a strong effect of glow...the light coming through the mist has a decidedly active character." (George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, p. 333) Indeed, the artist's contemporary Elliott Daingerfield wrote of this work, "This is one of the very great sunset pictures of George Inness. I watched him paint it and he had in his mind the unity and dignity of Rembrandt." (Paintings from the Estate of the Late Potter Palmer of Chicago, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1922, n.p.)

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